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Strobocrinus brachiatus

Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Mespilocrinidae

Taxonomy
Strobocrinus brachiatus was named by Lane (1979). Its type specimen is USNM 251290, a calyx, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality J5, Halk el Djemel, Djebel Tebaga, which is in a Wordian perireef or subreef shale/limestone in the Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation of Tunisia. It is the type species of Strobocrinus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Strobocrinus brachiatus Lane p. 129 figs. Pl 1, figs 6-8; text-fig 1I

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
RankNameAuthor
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
superorderFlexibilia(Zittel 1895)
orderSagenocrinidaSpringer 1913
superfamilyLecanocrinoidea()
familyMespilocrinidae
genusStrobocrinus
speciesbrachiatus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
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